I am not a Bernie person, but this "progressive candidate doesn't energize Black voters" is a really common criticism of progressive candidates like Bernie (who they couldn't call antisemitic).
Amusingly, "antisemitism" is the smear they'll use against Mamdani, since they can't use race.
Andrew Cuomo, who resigned the Governorship in turmoil over sex pest shit and who tried to cover up Covid deaths in retirement homes, decided to run for Mayor and after a major loss to the progressive candidate he decided he should continue running as an independent
Asimov works through this topic in The Naked Sun; where there's maybe a few hundred people on the colony world of Solaria, and they live in luxury and isolation, tended to by hundreds of thousands of robots.
Are you comped on the stock price? If so, it's for you.
It bumps the stock price. That's it's purpose.
There's no expectation anyone will spend money, it just has to create hype for the next stock options cycle. It might be nice if someone pays for this, but it's not the point.
That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
I mean, is what Swift did that much worse than international editions, special editions, singles, imports, remixes, etc?
It's probably remarkable inasmuch as we haven't had an album sell at this level ina decade, whereas it used to be a regular occurrence in the pre-streaming era.
Not jailing heads of state who commit crimes is definitely why the US is where it is.
If the last fifty years of Republican presidents have committed crimes, and they haven't been meaningfully held accountable, then why would Trump stop doing bad stuff if precedent implies he'll get away with it.
And we don't get Bush2 without all of the Nixon and Reagan-era cronies walking free and feeling enabled because their boss was allowed to ride off into the sunset.
One of the best responses to it I've seen was watching him try the "pull handshake" on Justin Trudeau and having it completely backfire because a) Trudeau's stronger, and b) Trudeau was ready for it.
I don't have confidence that the current crop of Democrats have the wherewithal to see justice done, and based on the patterns of the last 50 years, I'm afraid I'm right.
